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from t wes lli~
with honor In 19-!8 and 0
tho ,[\\aval Aeademy. wllere
wa~ amon~ thl' tup 10 of a cI
f 1300, II i the <on of
and .Irs. Jo D freeman.
ivr Point, Del.
Frccm~n is statl"nrd at E
:Yards Au I'orce nas~. CaM
with his WIle and daughle
ail h 8 lie has two brolhe
net two Istcrs.
Capl . kintyre has been
he Air Force 1ft('E'; 1955 an
rcccl\ cd a bachelor degree i
!\cienee from \Vashtng:ton Slal
Cniversily In I e.ar He is I
on of Mr. and r James
lclntyre. of ,16 BrIgbton rd.
, tb 11'11 D 1
Capt. Theodore C. Freeman
. .. Leu es AstroJI41U?
Mot"l", N...... W.t".I"lt.n
Due to Be Young
r O\; '10. - '''' - The aeeenl yesterday it bad learned lhe
, expeeled to b<> on YOUlh to·,identily of three of the new
day as the natioDal f-pare agen- group.
ey ,eleetJ; !rom 10 to 16 astra-I Tbe Chronicle namea tbree
naub. Air Force captains - Charles
The Man ned Spa~craft A. Bas..'iett. 30, a n ali ve of
Center oC the . 'ational Aero- Berea. Ohio: Theodore C. Free·
nautics and Spac.e Adiministra·' man, 33, a native of Haverford,
lion (N,~ A) ha' indicated tbe Pa" and David R, Scott, 30, of
avera~e B<;e of the new group La Jolla, Calif.
will be about 30. compared to Freeman grew up in Lewes
32.5 for nine trainees selected Del.. and has an aeronautical
last year and 34.5 for the seven I engineering degl'ee Irom the
Mercury stronauts picked in University of Michigan.
959 The space center refused
L:Eli!L1l.lIllliWWChronicle sai comment on the report.
Bassett is an instructor at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif •
and Scott is in the aerospace
research pilot course there,
Ninp of the current 16 astro­Dauts
came from Edwards or
lOOk advanced pilot training
there.
Another Edwards officer.
Capt. Michael J, Adams, 33
also has been mentioned as ~
eading candidate.
Robert R. Gilruth. director
of the spacecraft center, and
:Robert C. Seamans. associate
~ASA administrator. bave in­dirated
all of today's Groups
also ""ill be test pilots"" even
though such a 'tatus no longer
is required.
The test pilot requirement
was changed June 18 to 1.000
hours jet pilo1: time or posses­ion
of a test pilot's certifi
cille,
Bassett holds an elechica
enltineerlng degree {rom Tua
echnological CoUege, Scot
a 1954 West Point graduate
!so .tudied. 1M lbAadlu
II Instit of TeeIIno!o .
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